Copper Maintenance Pillar/CMUX
|From our own observations, the following are the attendances by Telstra at the estate. Please add a comment if you notice work being done at the pillar/CMUX – it helps us collect metrics for our case. Telstra has refused to provide any information in response to our request.
Stage 2 Maintenance attendances at Pillar/CMUX
2015/03/16 | 2015/03/26 | 2015/06/30 | 2015/07/01 | 2015/07/06 | 2015/07/16 |
2015/08/17 | 2015/09/07 | 2016/01/24 | 2016/02/26 | 2016/02/29 | 2016/03/02 |
2016/03/18 | 2016/03/29 | 2016/04/28 | 2016/05/08 | 2016/05/10 | 2016/06/06 |
2016/08/04 | 2016/08/05 | 2016/08/09 | 2016/08/27 | 2016/08/30 | 2016/10/08 |
2016/11/30 | 2016/12/13 | 2016/12/21 | 2017/01/07 | 2017/01/09 | 2017/02/07 |
2017/02/08 | 2017/06/02 |
6 Comments
There was a Telstra van at the pillar on Friday 26/2/2016 as well
Thanks Mark. Updated the above to reflect this. Seems to be a popular spot for Telstra Technicians.
On Monday 29 August 2016 there were 3 technicians working both at the CMUX and the pillar. Both of the large pits were opened up and one of the workers was measuring distance along Learmonth Drive on the Kambah side of the CMUX.
Thanks for this Mark (and Peter who rang me). From initial observations, it APPEARS they are ‘rodding and roping’ to allow for fibre to be dragged down to the corner of flagstaff and Ivo Whitton, where a FTTN node presumably will be placed next to the pillar. Which makes more sense than placing it next to where the CMUX currently is.
So now the we have an estimate (possibly an underestimate) of how many times technicians are sent out. Maybe if we were able to get info on the costs to telstra of the constant visits to fiddle with the inadequate copper we could ask those costs to be deducted from the fttp estimated costs as presumably Telstra would no longer incur those costs.
yes, its an underestimate, as most of these are my own observations, with some from thoughtful members of the community who have let me know/added comments.
Once the area becomes RFS, the copper and all the maintenance associated with it becomes NBN’s problem.
We have done alot to get the policy changed (which has now evolved into technology choice, and the cost sharing option) however I dont like our chances of getting any special exceptions based off the experiences I have had with this project of almost 3 years.
One of the major benefits of FTTP is reliability – and getting copper completely out of the telecommunications loop in the estate.
FTTN will not improve quality of their service.
It will improve the speed, depending on number of joins in their copper line, the line length, power levels along all other lines adjacent to it, radio frequency interference, water intrusion (Gleneagles Estate has a underground creek running through the middle of it), failure of joins, exposure to air and breakages of the hair thin copper when someone else’s joins are worked on, and overall corrosion of copper.